Protection for workstations and file servers
IBM Spectrum Protect is a client/server licensed product that provides storage management services in a multiplatform computer environment.
The backup-archive client program enables users to back up and archive files from their workstations or file servers to storage, and restore and retrieve backup versions and archived copies of files to their local workstations.
- A server program that acts as a backup and archive server for distributed workstations and file
servers.
The server program also supplies hierarchical storage
management (HSM) services, and enables systems to perform as a migration server. - An administrative client program that you can access from a web browser or from the command line. The program enables the IBM Spectrum Protect administrator to control and monitor server activities, define storage management policies for backup, archive, and space management services, and set up schedules to perform those services at regular intervals.
- An application programming interface (API) that you can use to enhance an existing application with storage management services. When an application is registered with a server as a client node, the application can back up, restore, archive, and retrieve objects from storage.
- A web backup-archive client that enables an authorized administrator, help desk person, or other users to perform backup, restore, archive, and retrieve services by using a web browser on a remote system.
Associated with IBM
Spectrum Protect, but sold separately, are the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management and IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows client programs. These products
automatically migrate eligible files to storage to maintain specific levels of free space on local
file systems and automatically recall migrated files when they are accessed. It also enables users
to migrate and recall specific files.
The terms hierarchical
storage management and space management have the
same meaning throughout this publication.